Delaney’s been through a LOT in her second month of life. We traveled home to Maryland for 2.5 weeks for the holidays and down to Florida for Meemaw’s 80th Birthday. The travel was much scarier in theory than it actually was. She did GREAT!

Stats at 2 month appointment: 11.2 lbs and 23.5 inches

Things I want to remember:

• We took our first T ride with Delaney to the airport on December 23rd using a rain cover over her car seat
• She flew for the first time on the same day and did great! We were delayed more than an hour so we walked her around the terminal for a while as she looked at all the lights and somehow stayed awake
• She ate and slept the entire flight – wahoo!
• She met most of our cousins, grandparents, and close by friends while we were home
• We celebrated Xmas at my parents and both grandparent homes. Delaney dressed for the occasion in the sweetest little dress.
• Jordan and I left Delaney for the first time for the Winter Classic while my parents watched her. She slept most of the day and the Caps won – it was just about as good as could have gotten.
• We traveled to Florida with 22 cousins/aunts/uncles and it was the best. Jordan came to Boston to work so met us down there.

Delaney Quirks

• Still snorts when she eats
• Getting great at taking her Nystatin medicine that she had to be on for 4 weeks while I battled the BULLET PROOF infection
• Can be propped up a little on pillows
• Makes great eye contact
• Rolls over from front to back at 5 weeks!
• She will smile and wiggle when we go to get her from her crib in the morning
• Loves having her hands clapped for her or any arm movements
• Started to sleep “through the night” with fairly consistent stretches of 5 hours (this did not last so…there’s that…)
• Got her two month shots and cried both times but slept and didn’t react badly with a fever or anything
• Went to Stephentown with our friends and spent a day in lodge, passed between me and Jordan

It was a great month! These updates will likely get shorter because it’s probably boring and from now on, I’ll try to post more interesting things about our lives!

We traveled home to Maryland for Christmas. Delaney was just five weeks old on the holiday, but she did an amazing job with all the stimulation. And she looked super cute. Christmas was extra special with her this year as it was the first time she met pretty much everyone in the family. She met new cousins and her Maryland great grandparents and we feel so lucky to have been able to make the trip down there with her for the holiday.

Here are some more favorites from her first day with Santa.

When Jordan and I decided we wanted to have a baby, we were pretty particular about when we wanted to become parents. Ok, so maybe it was more me. Whatever.

I figured out when I’d be pregnant, how pregnant I’d be during certain times of year, what trips we’d have to miss, what we needed to do before I was pregnant, and most importantly of all, how I could make sure I didn’t have a baby too close to a holiday.

Well, serves me right. Delaney was due November 8th. It was PERFECT. Not too close to Halloween as long as I wasn’t early (which would be rare on number 1) and not too close to the BIG holiday season for this interfaith babe. Lucky for us, November 22nd is the earliest Thanksgiving can ever be so we are JUST in the clear with Delaney having to share her bday with a major holiday.

So anyway, Thanksgiving came exactly one week after Delaney was born. My family was scheduled to come in for the holiday and assuming I’d be 3 weeks out from birth, I figured we’d made dinner on our own, have everyone over, etc. Even though the timeline changed, I was still determined to do some of the cooking. I ended up really only being able to make the potatoes and bread.

Thanks to Jordan, who cooked the turkey and a lot of the sides, and my Mom, we had an amazing Thanksgiving dinner as a family for the first time!

Looking back, I cannot believe I did this. Hosting dinner for people is insane by itself when you aren’t a brand new parent but I’m really, really proud of how well Jordan and I did this early on. Not having family local makes things a little different for us and it was really important to me to be with family and have a homemade Thanksgiving. It may not have seemed like a lot of work, but it was! And it was delicious.

And of course, this year we were EXTRA thankful for our sweet, healthy girl.

Hello!

Before you say anything…yes, I’m starting a family blog. Perhaps one would even call it a Mommy Blog. But, I don’t actually care because I’m a writer and I’m a mom now and I have a yearning to get this thing back up and running. The only difference now is that I’m using WordPress instead of Blogger, I’m including pictures and stories of my favorite little gal pal Delaney, and my plan is that I’ll also be writing much more frequently (you can’t actually get much less frequent than my last blog, so it’s only up from here!).

I fully intend on covering my life’s passions of family, marketing, health, fitness and food like I always did. More importantly, I want this place to become somewhere that my distant family and friends can stay up to date with us because the old cliche of motherhood is true, I hardly have time to take a shower let alone call everyone I’m related to.

I’m going to spend a little time catching up on the last year of our lives in my first few posts and from there, hopefully you’ll be entertained and you can follow me along the journey of figuring out how to be a Mom, what the heck I’m going to do about getting a job, and if I ever figure out how to get back into shape without hiring child care to do so.

I hope you’ll read more!